Find more than one error at once

[Joseph Turian]

Is it possible to coax python to find more than one error at once?

Thanks,
Joseph

[David]

On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 8:38 AM, Joseph Turian <tu****@gmail.comwrote:

Is it possible to coax python to find more than one error at once?

Thanks,
Joseph
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Sounds like you want to catch and log exceptions.

[Ben Finney]

Joseph Turian <tu****@gmail.comwrites:

Is it possible to coax python to find more than one error at once?

Definitely, write unit tests and run the whole suite
<URL:http://www.python.org/doc/lib/module-unittest>. All errors found
by your unit test suite will be reported.

If you mean the Python parser and compiler, then the answer to this is
in the Zen of Python: "In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation
to guess". An error in parsing or compiling leaves no clear
unambiguous path for finding further parsing or compilation errors.

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[Diez B. Roggisch]

Joseph Turian schrieb:

Is it possible to coax python to find more than one error at once?

What kind of errors? Syntax-errors? Then use one of the python source
code analyzers, such as pylint or pychecker.

Diez

[Joseph Turian]

On May 10, 8:13 am, "Diez B. Roggisch" <[e-mail]:

What kind of errors? Syntax-errors? Then use one of the python source
code analyzers, such as pylint or pychecker.

Great!

[John Machin]

Diez B. Roggisch wrote:

Joseph Turian schrieb:

>Is it possible to coax python to find more than one error at once?

What kind of errors? Syntax-errors? Then use one of the python source
code analyzers, such as pylint or pychecker.

I don't know about pylint, but "PyChecker works in a combination of
ways. First, it imports each module. If there is an import error, the
module cannot be processed." -- so it fails on the first syntax error.
For example:

C:\junk>type syntaxerrors.py
if foo = bar:
pass
foo = "unterminated
123 = foo

C:\junk>python -m pychecker.checker syntaxerrors.py
Processing syntaxerrors...
SyntaxError: invalid syntax (syntaxerrors.py, line 1)
if foo = bar:
^

Warnings...

syntaxerrors:1: NOT PROCESSED UNABLE TO IMPORT

C:\junk>